2016 State Chair for Ted Cruz for President Campaign. Finished 2nd despite only spending $1,115 in Michigan.

2016 Michigan Delegate to Republican National Convention

Small Business Owner

Bachelors and Masters of Science in Aerospace Engineering Degrees from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Senior Design Engineer for Boeing responsible for elements of the Environmental Control and Life Support System and Airlock Module for International Space Station.

Instructor at U.S. Space and Rocket Center Space Camp in Huntsville, AL.

Senior Systems Engineer under contract for Department of Defense virtual reality training system for all branches of Armed Forces

Member of Northridge Church in Plymouth, MI

Senator Colbeck is an aerospace engineer who has led the design of systems for the International Space Station and Department of Defense. He has also served as an instructor for Space Camp in Huntsville, AL. In his first run ever for public office in 2010, supported by his fellow members of a Tea Party and guided by his Christian faith, his grassroots campaign defeated four former state representatives to become the first person elected directly to the Michigan Senate in three decades.

Among his many accomplishments as a Republican Michigan State Senator are the following: leading the Senate effort to make Michigan the 24th Right to Work state in America, expanding school choice options, enactment of free market health care solutions, improving state-based veteran services from worst to one of the best in the nation, and enhancing the effectiveness and transparency of government operations.

Sanctity of life

Veteran services

Public safety

Free speech policy

Education policy

Living one’s faith in the public square

Healthcare

U.S. history

Muslim Brotherhood in America

Fox Business News

Detroit Public TV

Katie Hopkins Interviews Senator Patrick Colbeck

Off the Record

“A great reminder of conservative efforts in the last several years. An honest accounting of politics in our time.”

—JASON GILLMAN

“The truths in Wrestling Gators will help readers all across the nation to Drain the Swamp. Murky Swamps will disappear in the light of truth.”

“Drain the Swamp! Is the rallying cry of our generation. If we are to survive as a nation, it simply must be done. And if I were to pick one legislator in America to jump in and ‘wrestle the gators,’ Patrick Colbeck would be at the top of the list; they don’t come any better than this good man. I could not be happier to know he has written an instruction manual for those of us anxious to follow his courageous lead.”

— MIKE AZINGER

WEST VIRGINIA DELEGATE

Wrestling Gators
An Outsider’s Guide to Draining the Swamp

Would you like to know how government really works behind the scenes or what makes a tea partier tick or even how the blue collar bastion Michigan became the 24th Right to Work state in the nation? Wrestling Gators walks readers through the steps taken from a disengaged citizen focused on family and career to an engaged citizen willing to run for political office.

Wrestling Gators walks readers through the steps taken by the Senator from a disengaged engineer and small business owner focused on family and career to an engaged citizen willing to put his life, fortune, and sacred honor on the line by running for office. The book includes a behind the scenes look into the life of a legislator leading on some of the most contentious policy issues of our day such as health care reform, right to work, and the role of faith in the public square.

Along the way, readers will gain unique insights into how government really works. Included in the book are process descriptions for “How to get elected”, “How the Senate Majority Leader and Speaker of the House are selected”, “How legislation is passed”, and “How budgets are passed” plus how each of these processes are intertwined with one another. The purpose of this section is to equip grassroots members with the information that they need to compete for the attention of their elected representatives with lobbyists who already know how the system works.

In order to further equip citizen activists and elected officials, the book includes a suite of pragmatic policy solutions that prioritize the best interests of citizens over the interests of entrenched special interests. These solutions address problems common to many state governments such as health care, jobs, roads, education, energy, criminal justice reform, election integrity, and government efficiency.

The book wraps up with a call to action featuring practical steps needed to help ensure that our government serves the best interests of the citizens and not the other way around.

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